Li'ang Yu

Jun 21, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Li'ang Yu |Xiaodan Zhang |Jordan Brock |Venkatesh P. Thirumalaikumar

Introduction Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is the world's top renewable textile fibre, supporting a multibillion-dollar industry with a global production of 120.2 million bales of cotton (~26 million metric tonnes). It is a major economically important crop for the U.S. and for Arizona, where upland cotton is planted on ∼50 000 ha, mainly in the semi-arid environment of the low desert using surface irrigation to complement limited precipitation.